The Irish

idk, maybe it was my ~circles~ but people fucking LOVE their golf and horses ime, and anything else seems underrating it.

heh maybe

my 'half mad' is a reference to half of the country being fucking *mad* about em tbf

all the anglo sports except cricket and maybe tennis with above average interest in golf and horses, and gaa on top of that

― carla jenkinvingne (nakhchivan), Sunday, 24 November 2013 19:19 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they qualified for the T20 World Cup only today

ye'll have cricket e'en so's it's so you'll develop yer eoin morgans and boyd rankins and hand 'em over when ripe

― veneer timber (imago), Friday, 22 November 2013 05:39 (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah but no one cares

unless we beat the English obvs

there was a tiny ripple of interest when we beat England that time but that was cos y'know, we beat England

yeah that's the interest in other sports, the chance to beat the brits obv

re: golf- interest comes and goes a good bit imo, but when the ryder cup or w/e comes along it's feverish

yeah but no one cares

― Number None, Sunday, 24 November 2013 22:39 (1 minute ago)

right

feel like horses are the real irish sport

~glory~

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imqwnWWegVI

mmm, but all the golf courses/pitch & putts throughout the country though? I'm sure I read we had one of the highest golf course/people rations in the world.

also, we have actually produced golfers worthy of the Ryder Cup & they'd be pretty recognised.

well we're kinda a golf course waiting to happen all over the country- had an argument with tuomas before on this re it being an elite sport everywhere in the world- and with that comes production of golfers i guess....kinda like being one of relatively few countries playing rugby (tho for rugby it's through an infrastructure of private schools and privilege obv)

but im not arguing that golf isn't a big sport here!

but it is one of them that swells and ebbs every few years. snooker, darts, f1- often i dont wonder if they each have a few years in cycle with what RTE covers that few years or w/e- but yeah golf's over that plateau now ito the availability and popularity of participation

ah golf is big at every major ime - more in terms of watching it than necessarily playing it tho.

club membership out west is about 100 quid a year and most lads would have a set of clubs or access to same, so plenty would play it regularly when weather allows but yeah again with a big event interest peaks ito watching/discussion

blather and dhrink is still a big part of irish interest in whatever is on tv tho id say, we're all experts on the high jump once every four years etc

Or the laser...

don't know if that's peculiar to the Irish so much as pub folk in general

maybe it's the prevalence of pub folk then......

well that wd follow, but that sudden knowledgeability about any sport no matter how obscure, you come across that on an afternoon round any bar where two or three regulars are gathered i think

nah scratch that, i mean a certain kind of pub and tbf there are more of that kind of pub over your way to the best of my knowledge

well we need to put all of our bar-room experts somewhere

blather and dhrink is still a big part of irish interest in whatever is on tv tho id say

betting is another factor to take into account too here

which is part and parcel of dhrink i suppose

musha and tis

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/why-isnt-ireland-doing-anything-about-its-heroin-problem

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/twelve-pubs-of-christmas-is-a-booze-orgy-too-far-for-ireland-1.1628784?page=2

i went to college with the writer of this. it's just... bad on so many levels.

Fuck the irish times this past year

Didnt see who it was til now. Appallingly moronic, or at best reaaonably talented clickbait generator. Near enough #1 symbol of decline in the paper imo.

wait til you read her Beyonce liveblog!

Wait ti i dont hey

The writing itself is just awful, like there are so many poorly constructed sentences. Beyond that, prob best not to use a word like hedonism when trying to highlight some new modern evil.

Ah, the renowned Irish Twitter personality.

Any of ye see London Irish? Worst thing to happen to us as a people since the Famine.

First ive heard of it and im already nervous

LI was hilarious in its pointless shitness. Also hideous in its stereotyping, but hey.

Who knew there were so many trampolines in Ireland? Woke up with one embedded in the garden hedge, one took out the power on the DART this morning and they've apparently been causing chaos all over the country.

trampolines have definitely become a thing in the last five years or so

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/chaos-for-city-of-culture-festival-as-three-quit-29882013.html

good oul limerick. always making the headlines for the wrong reasons. the NYE gig was an absolute shambles actually. everyone was shunted into the courthouse yard like cattle, could barely see the stage, gargantuan queues for the bars (and not enough of them) and they even fucked up the countdown! i had left a long time before that, after spending over 20 euro for a ticket. doesnt bode well for the city of culture.

i never heard irish in the aussie accent before but there's a guy talking about stars on dara o'briain programme atm and he's somewhere btwn meblourne and the ardoyne between coughs

Darragh, I brought this up on Mordy's Aaliyah thread but I'll bring it up up, more oppositely, here; what was the deal with Ballyshannon? The partition deprived it of a rail connection to the Republic and then...?

Aaliyah! A++

i dunno the deal with ballyshannon, unless you can narrow down the question! it was a regular border checkpoint for me is all, though we were driving from donegal to mayo (within the republic throughout, as far as i was ever aware)

i never heard irish in the aussie accent before but there's a guy talking about stars on dara o'briain programme atm and he's somewhere btwn meblourne and the ardoyne between coughs

he could possibly be just a dickhead too

nah i think he's sound

he's a sight better than yon nerd just there

im not watching it - a new stand up comedy show is it?

jesus christ

https://mobile.twitter.com/Independent_ie/status/422505703631118337/photo/1

this story has been getting stranger all day.

beaten to death over chess match, details make it reasonably clear we're dealing with lovers, then its around that he's a researcher for the fuckin IONA

now apparently its cannabalism

is there a reliable source for cannibalism claims

gonna interpret that as a burn on the indo

Couple of different outlets carrying similar, differ btwn heart/lungs tbf

so Una Mullally's going to be writing the entire paper in a few years I guess
http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/humble-pie-on-the-menu-for-manchester-united-1.1652763

Shes welcome to IT, a pile of shite.

Podcasts are my new entertainment source at work.